skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Analytics is malware and Little Snitch allows me to put the ban hammer on desktop apps that send data to places I don't want them to.
I have never even thought who was replacing me or worried about my job being replaced by “foreigners”.

I’ve had 10 jobs over almost 30 years and I’ve been laid off twice - once when a company got acquired and once this year and I got Amazoned last year. It’s never taken me more than a month to get a job once I started looking.

I kept my skill set and resume up to date, always prepared to interview and I have a great network.

Yes I am a minority and I’m damn good at what I do - strategic cloud consulting with an emphasis on application development. Yes I’ve worked for a FAANG (direct hire).

Trust me, companies didn’t just hire me either at BigTech or a strategic hire at startups or to lead million dollar+ projects because I’m Black.
are there plans to add gate level propagation delay as well ? that is one thing that i find missing, and would push things closer to reality perhaps ?

fwiw, i did the nand2tetris from coursera, and it is indeed great fun.
I think there's a lot that's wrong with phones, but I can't help but think of scares from decades past that were laser-focused on inducing parental panic, but turned out not to be as harmful as initially reported: the fears of Rock 'n Roll making teenagers out-of-control lascivious horndogs, the Satanic panic, DARE/war on drugs, etc.
The tunnel is signalled only for CBTC. The outer ends of the line have only the old fixed-block signalling. The section from Westall in the south east to (eventually) Sunshine in the north has both. There is a dedicated model of train, the HCMT, which is fitted with the CBTC and is the only type that can run through the tunnel during normal operation. When an HCMT passes Westall heading towards the tunnel, the lamps on the fixed block signalling ahead of it go out. When a diesel regional train has HCMTs ahead of it on the next fixed block, it will see the lamps lit for Stop.

Trains runnin have been running this way in normal passenger service for months now, though I think it’s only in the last few weeks they’ve been testing it with HCMTs entering the tunnel at Hawksburn with diesels behind them instead going to South Yarra. (Currently, the trains with actual passengers take the South Yarra route at that junction.)

The HCMTs run only on this line, from Sunbury to East Pakenham/Cranbourne. They have their own new depot at East Pakenham so they don’t have to go elsewhere for stabling and maintenance. And they probably can’t; just for them to go through the City Loop as is temporarily required that tunnel had to be resignalled (the old location wasn’t visible from the cab.)

They did run an old Comeng train through the Metro Tunnel, without any signalling, to test clearance for a track maintenance train.
> the point I was trying to make and failed, was that there were no (able bodied) grown adults working those jobs like Mcdonalds 30 years ago.

I think you made that point. The other posters point was that this point is patently untrue. And it's very obviously untrue just by thinking about it for a few minutes. Peak hours for fast food restaurants (and most restaurants) are lunch hours where most teenagers would be in school.

They also tended to be open late night. The hours that teenagers can work are and have been heavily regulated for a very long time. No highschooler is working the 11pm - 4am shift at wendy's.

They were very obviously mostly employing adults.

And if you want a little anecdotal evidence, my father supported my family for a number of years working in fast food in the early to mid 80s during the oil crash

if you want further anecdotal stories, when in high school I worked retail. There were other highschoolers that worked there, but the vast majority of my coworkers were in their 30s.

When in college I worked graveyards at a certain 24 hour breakfast establishment. I was by far the youngest. Everyone else on that shift was in their 40s and had kids and families they were supporting.

We also literally have tropes about the old lady who's been working at the diner for 1000 years... "what do ya want hon?"

That trope didn't just come out of no where.
The instructions would be to trace the walls and pressure fit it all in but I could add the step. It would increase the cost slightly. Insulation is a secondary to getting the shelter in the first place.
Idiots writing tons of code with AI will create employment for armies of people who actually know how to debug it into working.

Remember Knuth's witticism about debugging being twice as hard as writing? So if you're as clever as you can be when writing a program then you might not be smart enough to debug it?

Now suppose you're as clever as you can be, plus armed with AI ...
Rebelle does this.

Here it is in 2021:

https://www.escapemotions.com/blog/rebelle-5-meet-color-pigm...

And here it is currently:

https://escapemotions.com/products/rebelle/manual/starting-p...
It is the 4th iteration of the design, I've honed it in.
Doesn't macOS also have a built in (but disabled by default) Firewall? Why does nobody use that?
In fairness entering was done without a referendum, and could not have won one. (The government can and should make policy decisions without punting them to a referendum, of course).
The alleged patch suggests that there is some Israeli ambition to conquer all of the Levant. There is no such Israeli settler movement.

As far as Lebanon, there is no mainstream support whatsoever to settle north of the Blue Line. The article you linked describes the idea as "far-right". I would invite you to talk to an Israeli and ask them what they think about Israel annexing Lebanon.

Gaza is entirely different. There was a centuries-old Jewish presence in Gaza until 1929, when the Jews were ethnically cleansed by an Arab pogrom. That same Jewish-owned land was resettled again in 1946, but the Egyptians ethnically cleansed Gaza again in 1948, and kept Gaza Judenrein until 1967. Israel decided to pull all Jews out of Gaza again in a bid for peace in 2005, but of course we all know how that turned out.
Anecdotally, it seems to depend on the liquid. Some are very thick and give me an impression like I can’t breathe. Others aren’t so bad, but have an extremely vile smell.

I’d say I’m not particularly prejudiced against vaping in general, I actually do vape from time to time.
When I look at the email addresses in the various communities I belong to, it’s at least 80% gmail, and the rest are mostly defunct services are just barely hanging on. Yes, I run my own email server, have for years.
For Windows I remember using the open source Portmaster for this, but noticed some apps and the OS lagging a bit on startup.
Niche risk assessment. Or more generically knowing the industry.

Small banks with a specialty will have loan officers that deeply understand the industry they specialize in and are able to parse a bad deal from a good one.

If a fishing captain comes in and wants to borrow $75k to replace an engine, that could be a great loan to make or a terrible one depending on factors that require knowledge of boats and the fishing industry. If this captain was paid out $150k last season, the hull has a clean survey and this season has a higher harvest quota, it’s a good deal. If the hull is a floating wreck, and the fishery is likely to be closed or contract this season, don’t make the deal. Bank of America does not have a loan officer who knows how to read a commercial vessel hull survey, or who understands local fishing payout customs, nor is it really worth their time to find that person.

A bank that has that knowledge has a competitive edge over banks that don’t. The captains in the fleet all know of that bank, and so do the diesel engine dealers.

In the US, for many industries, there is a bank that maintains that competitive edge, and most of the time it is a bank that you have never heard of.

This isn’t hypothetical, if you want the loan I’m talking about you probably will end up on the phone with these people: https://www.peoplesbank-wa.com/business/loans-lines-of-credi...
Create closed source models that are much better than the other ones, don't publish your tricks to obtaining your results, and then lock them down in a box that can't be tampered with? I hope it doesn't go that way.

Alternatively, a model that takes a year and the output of a nuclear power plant to train (and then you can tell them about your tricks, since they aren't very reproducible).
Because copyright last for 75+ years so there is relatively little that is public domain.

Why should training be subject to copyright? (and at what stages of the process). People learn most of what they know from copyright media, giving copyright owners more control over that might be a bad idea

But AI companies are paying content owners for for access recently (partially to reduce legal risk, partially to get access to material not publicly available) but then giving deep-pocket Incumbent a monopoly might be a bad idea.
I'd recommend a quick Google search for "types of homelessness" or "chronic homelessness" before proffering any personal attacks.
Nothing says genocide like leaving Gaza alone for 15+ years, letting Gazans work in Israel and even funding their development.

But I'm sure you can find a way to blame Israel for Hamas attacking them anyway.
But that’s not how it works in the real world.

In the real world, “computer said to” provides just enough plausible deniability for _no_ human to be _ever_ blamed by the action the computer decided on.
YouTubers have made rechargeable battery packs and e-bike batteries out of them. That could save you money or you could sell them on eBay/Etsy/etc.
Not disagreeing with you but vape trash is a great way to collect totally functional rechargeable batteries.

Turning Disposable Vapes into a Fast Charge Power Bank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehp23hrrEHY
> So the EEC was not "renamed" to the EEA. The EEC/EC/EU and EEA are separate but overlapping arrangements – the EEA is geographically broader in scope, but topically narrower (certain EU laws and regulations are excluded from the EEA, and hence the EFTA states do not have to adopt them)

The EEA has much the same scope as the EEC. So in practice the EEC was renamed to the EEA (and the EC was instituted with a broader remit), even if the mechanics of how it was implemented are slightly different.
Indeed. As we also need to introduce personal responsibility in corporations at large. Corporations = people, but for now, they have a free pass at poisoning the living, killing whoever they need to in places devoided of the rule of law, manipulating politics at large. Heck, some corporations even benefit from in-house police powers and privatized legal systems (when permitted in some places). But that wouldn't be enough. We also need a reformed legal system where crimes are not considered the fault of someone, but more aptly, an evenly shared social failure. Because in fine, we are all responsible for the crimes we allow to be perpetrated. When someone rapes a woman, kills another, or do anything against anyone, we should always question society and ask: how come we the people let that happen? Crime is only an answer to social disengagement, never an isolated incident. Yes, put aside perpetrators until they realize what they've done. But never loose track of the fact that society is sick, and must be healed. Justice as we know it is nothing but an organized revenge system. It will never lead to sanity unless root causes are systematically examined.
> because that's not possible

it isn't? I'm not aware of any relay servers being run but the AT protocol makes affordances for this functionality. Are those features a lie? I read the protocol specification only a few weeks ago, perhaps this is new?

You're correct that the grandparent's PDS isn't the same as a Mastodon homeserver but that's probably a good thing; the network functions much differently than the ActivityPub federation
The first step in being discrete is being discrete.

That is to say, if you want to crack NATO communiques your first step is to not call them up and ask for the goods.

Whether this is ethically good or not is tangential and an exercise left to each reader.
> To do that requires the Photos app to take the lat/long of a photos location, and do a reverse-geo lookup to get a human understandable address.

It seems trivially possible to do this in a more privacy preserving way: geocode the search query and filter photos locally.

No idea how Apple implements it though.
LLMs are bad databases, so for something like a bible which is so easily and precisely referenced, why not just... look it up?

This is playing against their strengths. By all means ask them for a summary, or some analysis, or textual comparison, but please, please stop treating LLMs as databases.
An ungodly amount of paid software is built on the back free stack exchange answers. Complaining about lack of compensation for answers that ultimately lead to revenue was just as valid 20 years ago as today.
You do not need “a billion dollar worth clean room and equipment” to make chips. You just need a garage and a bunch of old equipment. Even high school students can make microchips:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-high-school-student-whos-build...

As your “creating medicine after a proven recipe” remark, that is not how things work. The way it usually works is that you study organic chemistry in college and then you work out a recipe yourself based on the chemical formula. You do not follow a recipe from someone else because recipes are often trade secrets. At least, that is what I took away from studying organic chemistry in college. Well, that and a remark by the professor that those making illicit drugs take that course before getting started.
An estimated 70% of buildings in Gaza have been either damaged or completely destroyed. The majority of the population has been displaced from their homes. Civilian casualty estimates range from 40,000 to 186,000 (according to earlier projections from The Lancet medical journal), though accurate counting is difficult since most hospitals are no longer operational and it's hard to retrieve bodies from under rubble. Polio and various other diseases are resurging among the civilian population.

Given that more bombs have been dropped on Gaza than were used in the World War II bombings of Dresden, Hamburg, and London combined, claims about AI-enabled precision targeting capabilities seem difficult to reconcile with the scale of destruction.

This article seems more like marketing for Israeli "defense" tech. And the AI here is really just a "get out of jail free" card for war crimes.
That assumes that only the US is interested in using LLMs commercially, which isn't really true. Even if you can get America to sanction Chinese LLM use, you aren't even going to American allies to go along with that, let alone everyone else.

China's biggest challenge ATM is that they do not yet economically produce the GPUs and RAM needed to train and use big models. They are still behind in semiconductors, maybe 10 or 20 years (they can make fast chips, they can make cheap chips, they can't yet make fast cheap chips).
Many studies find that a majority of personal bankruptcies in the US involve medical debt with some estimates of ~500,000 medical-cost contributed bankruptcies per year. A hospital (might) not kick you to the curb if you are dying in their emergency room. However, this is not the same as catastrophic coverage.
Oh - well in that case a health insurer has a contract to provide reasonable care... but I think it's pretty clear (especially with UHC's absolutely insane 90% inaccurate rejection bot) that there are bad faith actors involved here.

To be slightly more depressing - before AI auto-rejectors existed companies would just hire doctors and pay them in a way that encourages (I'd hazard to say intentionally) doctors to deny claims as quickly as possible - Cigna was recently caught[1] doing this to an extreme.

There is a deep rot here.

1. https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-pxdx-medical-health...
I’m interested to know if you let the LLMs automatically make posts and interact on their own, or do you only use the response and submit manually?
The Reason Why You Have Allergies [video]
Nobody cares about your public discourse. Your opinion is not that important to 99.9999% of the people on this planet. I use social media to follow people I like and see funny jokes and if a few people undeservedly catch a block oh well, that's the price of a curated feed.

Call it an echo chamber, but nobody has a right to have their posts be seen
No, it won't be. Israel doesn't want to grant citizenship to the 3 million Arabs who live there, the vast majority of whom would like to annihilate the state of Israel. There is no plausible path forward for Israel to annex Jenin, Ramallah, Tulkarm, etc., without forcibly expelling the Arabs living there - and that would be wildly unpopular, to say the least.
How does it compare to OpenWebUI? It seems pretty solid, no ideia how I never heard of it before!
It is an ideology that is gaining popularity in Israel though. I am regurgitating what Israel's own Finance minister is saying.

"In an interview for the documentary, In Israel: Ministers of Chaos, produced by European public service channel, Arte, [Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel] Smotrich claimed that Israel would expand “little by little” and eventually encompass all Palestinian territories as well as Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia."

https://javafilms.fr/film/israel-ministers-of-chaos/

This is a minister who is very powerful in the current Israeli government. To dismiss this is pretty weird. He doesn't hide his ambitions.

I am actually agreeing with him that this is likely to try to happen least for the foreseeable future. The trends point in this direction.
What about the inner borders? Often times "illegal" (not authorized being in the country) aliens come from the inner borders, which can not be effectively controlled as per Schengen.

During the 2015 migrant crisis, did not refugees end up traveling to Germany while first entering Greece and Italy? If Dublin regulation really applied, Germany would not need to take the responsibility of the majority of the asylum seekers. At the same time, that only concerns for the asylum seekers and not the unregistered aliens.
It took actions based on the emotional / political whims of various random people though, right? Maybe not from a single megalomaniacal ruler, but that seems like a distinction without a difference.
LS is beyond annoying for the first couple of days on a new computer. "Do you want to connect to gmail.com on port 443? What about kagi.com on port 443? What about your employer on port 443? Mind if Weather.app checks the weather?" After a couple of days, I have blanket rules like "allow Safari to connect to any host :443, except for googleadservices.com because nah".

It quickly tapers down to alerting about rare new connections, which is when it becomes hugely useful. RandomTool.app normally connects to cloud.randomtool.xyz. Why is it suddenly asking to connect to exfiltrate.ru?
A week or so. I regularly use normal keyboards and moonlander and I struggled with it. Too difficult to go back and forth throughout the day. Use a laptop regularly as well. Love the programability of moonlander but not worth it for me since I still need to use regular keyboards on a frequent basis. Wish they paired their software with a normal keyboard layout. Went back to regular qmk mechanical keyboards.
Yes, it's for servers.
> In 2014, the IDF’s acceptable civilian casualty ratio was one civilian for a high-level terrorist, said Tal Mimran, a former legal adviser to the IDF. In the Gaza war, the number has grown to about 15 civilians for one low-level Hamas member and “exponentially higher” for mid- and high-level members,” according to the Israeli human rights organization Breaking the Silence, citing numerous testimonies from IDF soldiers. The New York Times reported the number as 20 earlier this week.

This is key new information (to me, maybe it’s old news to people following the situation closely) that’s more horrifying than the AI angle. And given the liberal criteria to be classified as combatant and probably downplayed civilian casualties, the ratio has gotta be substantially higher than the already appalling official threshold.
It is mind-blowing that this happens but I suppose totally logical too. Scammers are out to extract money from people and companies by any method possible, so in the world of remote-only work, it's just another extraction angle for them I suppose.

Wild.

(Thanks for sharing this info btw.)
Sure is nice for spotting the low hanging fruit though.
The built-in firewall is only for incoming connections, not outgoing connections.
I own many more devices than just a Mac. I have an iPhone, Apple TV, Linux box, Windows PC, Nintendo Switch, Quest 2, Kindle. I'd prefer one piece of software that covers all of them over different software for each of them.
This app uses Claude over the API, and that "In the word "strawberry" there are 2 r's.". Claude web chat is correct, though.
For grins and/or cringes, I'd like to see a similar site for the US.

There are a few cities with reasonably good commuter-rail service which might compare with some of the European cities. Other than that distance/hour will be a small fraction of that in the EU.

Comparisons with China and Japan might also be illuminating.

There are historical isochrone travel maps of the US, also ironically strongly influenced by railroad development, see:

<https://railroads.unl.edu/documents/view_document.php?id=rai...>

<https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~2...>
The commissioners are appointed by their party - often the decisions are made by people who are not even directly elected themselves - and as such have no real accountability to the public. MEPs are slightly better but the overwhelming majority of them are "elected" via a party list system, which means that any individual can much more easily get elected by being popular with party bureaucrats than by being popular with the public that they supposedly represent. (But since the MEPs can't write laws, only vote on laws written by the commision, they're pretty irrelevant anyway).

Even an extremely unpopular commissioner is at no risk of being voted out. For many years the UK's representative was disgraced former disgraced former MP Peter *Mandelson, one of the most hated people in the country, who could never have won any remotely democratic contest.
Point me to the hiring board!
Then the story doesn't make sense. The argument was that if the city tried to do that, then people would come from all around and make the problem worse.
> push-thru modular connectors

Yep. Very fond of the "EZ RJ 45" line in particular. The strain relief that's built into them does not interfere with loading the cable and actually gets a good bite into the jacket once crimped.

The other advantage I've found is that it's harder to accidentally make defective cable ends. Trying to trim and face yourself you run the risk of one of the lines being too short or pulled back during the crimp and not mating well with the lug. The EZ RJ 45 effectively eliminates this as there is always wire under the lug during the crimp.
As does ArtRage? https://www.deviantart.com/artrageteam/art/Realistic-Color-B...

MyPaint also has it though, and that's open source: https://mypaint.app/blog/2019/01/26/MyPaint-2.0-alpha/ (https://github.com/mypaint/libmypaint/pull/56 mentions using 7 primaries for blending), and another older thread about other methods: https://community.mypaint.app/t/real-color-blending-wip/390 . MyPaint IIUC is integrated into Gimp, so I assume Gimp can also do it using the MyPaint brush engine.

Edit: I was responding to TFA's claim "there was no practical way to implement true pigment mixing into digital painting. Until now." but this page isn't dated - seeing how many other discussions reference MixBox blending could this need a [20XX] tag? I don't think it's new.